On 11/12/05, Trish Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:10 AM -0800 11/11/05, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: > >Can anyone advise on how widespread Interstate-Regular is? I've > >never heard of it but maybe I > >missed the meeting. My feeling is that this is not a good idea, but > >it's a design decision that I > >don't have a whole lot of control over, so I need to come back with > >some serious data if I'm going > >to go against it. > > Interstate is a really nice sans serif from Font Bureau > http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/interstate/ > > very popular and hip in the right circles. If the audience for the > site are publishers and ad agencies, there's a chance they might have > it installed. Outside of that, I would doubt it. Interstate is not a > cheap set of fonts (EACH weight is $40). > > Rant: It's a shame that Adobe puts all their free fonts that come > with the Creative Suite in a special Adobe only folder; otherwise you > could use some of these as near standard fonts at least for a graphic > designer audience. > This is where I wish someone had had the thought to establish more than five generic font-families. In particular I'd love to see "headline", "wide" and "narrow" so that a generic solution would be able to select a more suitable fallback font. Of course it wouldn't work retrospectively, because the fonts themselves would have to declare which generic families they match. -- Richard Grevers New Plymouth, New Zealand Orphan Gmail invites free to good homes. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
